The Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Queensland is carrying out chemical analyses and metallographic examination of ancient bronze figures from Asia, which are held in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra. The object of this long-term project is to accumulate data regarding the chemical composition and metallurgical structure of the bronzes, and later to try to relate the compositions to the metallurgical ores found in the regions where the bronzes were made. This short paper covers only the metallographic examination of two bronze figures from Khmer. A comprehensive joint paper with Noel Barnard et. al. has been written, covering all aspects of the examination, and is being published by the Australian National Gallery. -- AATA